BHT Sussex

We provide housing, and deliver support, specialist advice and guidance to people across Sussex.

New referral pathways for East Sussex Floating Support Service

Due to funding cuts, from 7 July 2025 the referral pathways into this service have changed. Please visit our East Sussex Floating Support Service page for details of new eligibility criteria, and to find out how to refer into the service.

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BHT Sussex

We provide housing, and deliver support, specialist advice and guidance to people across Sussex.

Combating Homelessness, Creating Opportunities, Promoting Change

BHT Sussex is a housing association and a homeless charity. We provide essential services across Brighton & Hove, Eastbourne and Hastings, as well as elsewhere in Sussex. We see it as our role to both challenge the causes of homelessness, poverty and marginalisation and to deal with the consequences.

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Our Service Areas

Work, Learning & Employment

Homelessness

Mental Health & Wellbeing

Addiction Services

Housing, Benefits & Legal Advice

Housing Services

News & Events

First Base partners with Community Calling to boost digital inclusion

We are proud to announce that First Base Day Centre is now partnering with Community Calling, an initiative that provides reconditioned smartphones to those in need....
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New joint briefing shows government can make big savings by fixing benefits anomaly

A new briefing created by Centrepoint and supported by BHT Sussex, Crisis, YMCA, St Mungo’s and Homeless Link outlines how the government could make significant savings...
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BHT Sussex wins West Sussex community mental health contract

BHT Sussex is pleased to announce they have been successful in their bid to NHS Sussex to be the lead provider for West Sussex Mental Health...
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Real life stories from BHT Sussex

YL

BHT Sussex’s Immigration Legal Service has helped hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers with legal support. Many of those we work with are ‘unaccompanied minors’; young people and children who have often endured unimaginable suffering, and who have no adults to look after their welfare when they arrive in the UK. We provide a crucial service for some of the most vulnerable people in our community, including victims of trafficking and domestic violence. This Is YL’s story. YL was living in Vietnam with her parents when tragically, when she was just 14, they both died within a short time of … Read more

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